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Nephi
@nephrited.bsky.social
Artist, fey creature & always on the lookout for new potted plants.

Commissions are open!

https://patreon.com/nephrited
IM FISH
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Her external layer needed built up, as she started bare metal - the skin layer was grown. To have it be natural looking, the process was set up to simulate aging, including adjusting the underlying metal frame as necessary.

In canon she has no memory of that, and her usual look is the end result.
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Entirely valid! Not quite the point for Jakri here, but otherwise yes, 100% valid indeed!
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
How do they distinguish between the types of parent? Can it be any two, or is there effectively a male and a female? Why do they not refer to it?

Are they, in fact, the dwarves from Discworld?
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I am 100% sure he'd disagree with you there
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
One assumes biological sex is also not relevant for said species?

Ironically native Ticali struggle with the concept of gender vs sex. When you can change sex at will, the idea of having your gender not match your sex is, well, alien.
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
She's a robot you know
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
She did actually look like this in her original design, 15 years ago or whenever I first drew her.
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
He's doing his best. 😔
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The perfect endorsement from this anonymous patron! 😊
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Did you happen to use a kpop demon hunters frame as reference for this one?
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It's my favourite model in my cabinet 😔
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM